Posted on 06/05/2021 5:39:39 PM PDT by conservative98
Twitter declared a free and open Internet to be "an essential human right in modern society" Saturday morning after the Nigerian government banned access to the social media giant following a dispute with its president – even as critics say it suppresses conservative content and bans its own users.
Twitter deleted a fiery tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari that many perceived as a veiled threat against violent separatists in the nation’s southeast – then his government’s information wing responded by banning the social media platform from the country.
"We are deeply concerned by the blocking of Twitter in Nigeria," Twitter’s Public Policy division tweeted in response. "Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society. We will work to restore access for all those in Nigeria who rely on Twitter to communicate and connect with the world. #KeepitOn."
The declaration immediately drew responses from Twitter users who noted that the social media giant’s own policies allow for suspending and banning users – including former President Donald Trump.
"Access to the free & #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society... unless you’re Donald Trump. Or reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Or discussing the biology of gender. Or the murderous dictator of Iran. Or a Chinese Communist Party peon lying about COVID," conservative author Liz Wheeler wrote in response to Twitter’s tweet.
Another user tweeted the meme of a comic book hero sweating over which button to choose – "Access to Twitter is a human right," or "Ban these accounts for saying things I don't like."
Several other users weighed in with similar sentiments.
The company has also been accused by Republican lawmakers of "shadow-banning" conservatives, or using an algorithm that suppresses the visibility of their tweets.
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And yet FOX Business reported last month that a network of pro-Iran Twitter accounts got numerous anti-Semitic hashtags trending as violence between Israel and Hamas broke out at its highest levels since 2014.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Get off of Twitter.
There's no hypocrite like a liberal hypocrite.
The most evil people on earth live with and work for twitter.
I left those Twits behind the day they dropped my President. My REAL President.
Twitter, it’s just not worth it.
Get off and starve it.
Thinking real hard about some variant of that on my headstone.
Except for conservatives but they’re not human anyway, see?
Oh that’s rich… you’re a private company when it suits your interests and now you want to claim some sort of sovereign universal access?
Or a good tagline!
The head twits so lack self-awareness that they didn’t realize they conduct the very censorship they were condemning. The same lack of self-awareness likely applies to The Left in general.
The irony of this is too funny. Can you imagine how liberals would holler if they were suspended or banned from social media?
Such chutzpah.
So what Jack and his band of Communist Censorship Assholes are saying is that Conservatives aren’t even to be considered Human anymore.
In related news, Twitter will be renaming itself Chutzpah. It’s new motto will be, “Don’t criticize the jab.”
DANG!
Obi Wan DoctorDemento.
It’s no coincidence that Jack Dorsey is looking more and more like Rasputin.
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